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B4 ' __THE EV. NING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1936. DANCE GROUP RETURNS IN SEASON’S SECOND BIG EVENT 4 Drama and Satire Give Jooss Ballet Its Force A1t Technique Turned Into New Field for the Expression of Thought and Emo- . tion in “The Green Table.” 9 By Alice Eversman. I N THE years that have succeeded the Great War, it has fallen to the lot of one young man, Kurt Jooss, the dancer, to achieve not only interna- tional but probably enduring fame by satirizing the great tragedy which wrought such havoc for mankind and in particular for art. In a supreme inspirational moment he conceived and developed the bal- let, “The Green Table,” and therewith put before the public the most con- vincing and dramatic appeal for peace that has ever been thought of. By means of the dance, associated for centuries with delicate, ephemeral subjects and used in the cause of es- thetic divertissement, he has stirred the world and awakened it to renewed horror of the utter fruitlessness of such carnage as was its inspiration. ‘The “Green Table,” featured num- ber on the Jooss Ballet program to- | morrow at the National, begins with the portrayal of diplomatic gentle- | men gathered around a conference table to decide the fate of their coun- trymen. They argue, gesticulate and | confer with each other in pompous dignity, keeping clearly in view their own importance at this critical mo- ment. Nothing definite happens. Then come the scenes of war, which | their diplomacy was powerless to pre- wvent. Devastating, heart-rending and useless is the panorama which un- folds, and in which the sincerity of patriotic feeling and the spirit of bravery does not lessen in the slight- wst the sordidness and horror which the genius of Jooss has ever kept in the foreground. At the end, the pame gentlemen are assembled around the same table, still pompous, still arguing in utter futility. I‘l‘ IS one of the most remarkable and significant facts that the dance, heretofore less emotionally ex- pressive than music, could be utilized o depict the most terrible curse that humanity has had to combat since the beginning of time, and the foolish manner of humans in handling it. It §s further remarkable that a young snan, who first enjoyed the distinction € being the best waltzer in his vil- 1age, should have thought in terms of ghe dance in such powerful and illu- Jninating a fashion as to have pro- Jected an idea that leaves no one who witnesses it unmoved, Where Yamed politicians of the world have failed. While the entire dance episode is framatic in its effect, it is not by means of drama exclusively that he achieves his end. He uses a still more potent means, that of satre. In his sardonic reproduction of the confer- ence, one catches the amusing angle, and while still in this mood, is trans- ferred to the grim reality in which there is no more humor to be found. Then, before the audience has had | time to sense the need of relief, the scene is switched back to the original pet-up and the irony of the situation. ‘The extraocrdinary thing about this Rallet 1s not the immediate reaction of the audience, but the endurance of the impression left. One may pearch & long time before recalling another dance number which starts a train of thought that not con- tinues, but enlarger itself after the performance is ended. Nor can one easily name another instance when art —and the dance in particular—has overstepped the boundary of its do- main to hold up so vividly to ridicule the very circumstances and atmos- phere which destroy art. IF‘ KURT JOOSS has not set the pace for future growth in art, he has at least opened the eyes of many to its untouched possibilities. For him, art is not a medium of dreams md:md Sfobably hatwasihie otz aspirations, but a force capable of in- fluencing opinions in affairs without its province. In the hands of his genius—for genius he is, conforming his art technique to profundity of idea —the pliant, delicate fabric of his art hides steel under its soft covering that can rip through the sheath of pretense and reveal things as they are. Yet again, the revelation that Mr. Jooss has made of the puissant char- acter which art can assume, makes one realizes how few artists there are in the world capable of disclosing the gift of genius, for only those en- dowed with super talent may dare to attempt a similar creation. And yet once again, is not the very curse against which he preaches so poig- nantly in “The Green Table” respon- sible for the slow development of great art? When war comes, and terrible as is the suffering in every walk of life, it is art that requires the longest time for recovery. ‘The World War not only destroyed many promising artists of every coun- try, but it annihilated the careers of others and polluted the soil in which art flourishes. Stark neces- sity and bitter thoughts took the place of quiet endeavor and high-minded aspirations. It cut the delicate thread that binds the artist to the sphere of finer things and crumbled the pillars of faith, hope and charity, which are the mainstay of artistic striving. Nothing good musically has come from the sentiments which war en- genders, and no great work can trace its inception to the sorrow and dis- aster that follow the quarrels of na- tions. Yet the voice of art is so small as to be lost in the general clamor. The greatest good that could come from such performances as “The Green Table” would be that other artists would try to think and create, in the manner of Mr. Jooss, in pro- test against the ways of the world in destroying the fine and uplm.mg\ elements that constitue is excuse for existing. In Local Music Circles UTH MARIE GARDNER, pupil of the late Herbert Wither- spoon, director of the Metro- politan Opera, will present #iazel E. Smith, soprano, in a song re- ital Thi ay evening at 8:30 o'clock. in the Salle de Recital, 1325 G street worthwest, with Elena Crivella accom- nist. Miss Smith will be assisted by hn L. Correll, pianist, pupil of Miss Crivella and winner of the highest fhonor in the 1936 Federation of Music [lubs’ contest. Elena de Sayn, violinist, will give ter recital on Saturday evening, Octo- per 24, at the Grafton Hotel, entrance De Sales street, instead of October 82 as previously announced. Miss fle Sayn will be assisted at the piano by Dorothy Paul. Norman Frauenheim, pianist, has Peen engaged to conduct & piano class st the Greenwich Academy, Green- |wich, Conn,, in addition to his teach- ing in New York City and in Wash- ington. He will resume his local Plasses on Monday. ' The monthly meeting of the Piano * Forum will be held at Co- Bumbia Heights Christian Church, 1435 Park road, Thursday evening at 10:30 p'clock. Marybeth Garvey, pianist, wecretary of the Preparatory School ©f the Washington College of Music, ‘Wwill be the special guest. Officers for %he coming year will be selected and matters of interest to teachers will be —_— under discussion, The public is in- vited to attend. ‘The Women'’s City Club will present Lily Garrett, contralto, and Dorothy Radde Emery, composer-pianist, in a musical program at the club house, 736 Jackson place, tomorrow at 5 p.m. ‘The Chadwick Orchestra begius its thirteenth season of weekly rehearsals today at 8 p.m., under direction of E. W. McKean, at the studio, 2026 O street northwest. Young amateur mu- sicians of either sex are cordially in- vited to communicate with Alice Chad- wick for further information. Saxophones and fretted instruments are not eligible for membership. Justin Lawrie, tenor, and Henry Smidt Gregor, well-known pianist, will be the soloists at the second of the Sunday evening series of musicales held at the Roosevelt Hotel tomorrow eve- ning. These musicales, which begin at 9:30 o'clock, are under the direction of George F., Ross. ‘Tomorrow evening, preceding the 8 o'clock service, Charles E. Gauss, A A. G. O, organist at the Grace Re- formed Church, will preseht a half- hour of organ music. Gertrude and Lea Effenbach are presenting two of their junior pupils, Frieda Bass and Rosalie Fonoroff, in the first of a series of recitals in their studio at Dupont Circle on Friday evening, Music Teachers Meeting. "rn Washington Music Teachers’ Association, Alice Burbage Hes- selbach, president, will hold its semi- annual business meeting on Sunday, October 18, at 5 o'clock at 1810 Con- necticut avenue. Herman C. Rakeman s this year filling the office of second wice president, Mabel Duncan is an- nounced as chairman of the Program Committee and Etta Schmid Wells as chairman of the Hospitality Commit- tee. Tickets for the National Sym- pheny Orchestra concerts, to which the association is entitled because of its membership, will be distributed at the meeting. Program meetings of the associa- tion take place on the last Monday evening of each month, with the ex- ception of December. b’;he leocw:er program will be given Alexander Sklarevski, R\lssh‘n pianist, who will play on October 26" in Barker Hall Membership cards are necessary for admission to this and other programs throughout the year. Myron Whitney s chairman of the Membership Com- mittee. To Give Recital. anvnm LEAN, violinist, former pu- pil of Anton Kaspar and winner of the National Pederation of Music Clubs violin contest for the District of Columbia in 1931, has been study- ing for the last year with Raphael give a program at the Wardman Park Hotel on November 9 and also will play in Pittsburgh and New York. Assisting Mr. Lean at the piano will ‘Thelma Stein of Troy, N. Y., pupil A Second Talk by Dr. Barnes. N THE second of his series of 10 lecture-recitals on “Milestones in American Music — 1636-1936,” to be given in the Women's City Club ball room Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock, Dr. E. N. C. Barnes, local public schools music director, will develop our mu- sical history from 1840 to 1880 in a talk entitled “Growing Pains—the Midnineteenth Century.” America’s first matinee idol, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, “creole poet of the piano,” rose to prominence in this period, according to Dr. Barnes, and the last decade, between 1870 and 1880, was one of great progress. Ann Sugar, popular young local artist and pupil of Felian Garzia, will play Gottschalk’s romantic piano se- lections, “The Dying Poet” and ‘“The Last Hope,” and the Alumni Male Quartet will sing a group of old-time hymns to illustrate Dr. Barnes’ ac- count. Other illustrations will be ren- dered in excerpts of period numbers by famous artists in reproductions and & preliminary 20-minute recorded con- cert. W. M. L. Presents Vocal Coach. 'HE Washington Musical Institute will present Paul Simmons, vocal teacher and coach of New York, in an informal program on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons at 5:30 o'clock to which the public is invited. Mr. Simmons also will hold auditions on these days and on Wednesday eve- ning between 6:30 and 9:30 o'clock without charge or obligation. Schumann Work Gets Its Revision Kreisler to Present His Music When He Plays at Chicago. FRITZ KREISLER, the noted Aus- trian violinist, who will appear here in recital on Monday evening, October 36, at 8:30 o'clock as the first attraction of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey's evening recital series at Con- stitution Hall, has completed & re- vision of Schumann’s “Fantasia for Violin and Orchestra,” which Kreisler will perform for the first time on Oc- tober 29 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Frederick Stock conduct- ing. This announcement was made s few days ago in New York by Charles Foley, Kreisler's personal representa- tive in this country. The work has never been played in this cotntry, Mr. Foley said. “So far as is known” said Mr. Foley, “this work has not been per- formed since the death of Joachim ist ever to attempt to play it. Mr. Kreisler's determination to rescue the work from oblivion and restore it to back to & memorable evening in Vi- enna when he was 19 years old. ‘The occasion was onelof the weekly gatherings of the Vienna Tonkunstle- verein. Brahms, & frequent visitor at these informal gatherings, was pres- ent. So was the distinguished violin- ist, Joseph Joachim. The evening started with chamber music, in which the youthful Kreisler took part. At the supper which followed, Kreisler was privileged to sit near the great men of music, and the conversation turned to Schumann, and in particu- lar to his ‘Fantasia, Opus 131." “Joachim, to whom the work is ded- icated, deplored its neglect by other violinists and ventured to prophesy that after his death it would sink into oblivion. Brahms thought that the beautiful portions @ the work | might be saved for posterity by judi- cious revision, and eliminating the few meaningless passages. He also | suggested elaborating the wonderful but far too short middle episode. “Kreisler told me that from that day on he was filled with a burning | desire to undertake such a revision, but he waited until after the death of Joachim, thinking the latter might | undertake a revision. Twice Kreisler attempted a revision and twice dis- carded his efforts. The present re- vision was finished during the past Summer. At the time he plays it in Chicago he will also perform his own arrangement of Paganini's “Konzer- stuck.” “The Schumann Fantasia was writ- ten in 1853 and was played for the first time by Joachim in 1854. It was one of Schumann's last works. He died two years later.” | Music Activitiesat Y. W. C. A. 'HE Sunday afternoon music hour at the Y. W. C. A, Seventeenth and K streets, will begin tomorrow at 5 o'clock. This is the eleventh sea- son for these informal musicales, to which the public is invited, and, as has been the custom for several years, the first one will feature informal singing by the audience. Music and poetry of the out-of-doors will be the theme of the program, and the music director, Mary M. Burnett, will be as- sisted by Mabel R. Cook, Girl Reserve executive, and the Girl Reserve Glee Club, On October 18 Helen Campbell Wil- liams, young Washington pianist, as- sisted by Elizabeth Everett, soprano, will be heard, and on October 25 the program will be given by the Gipsy, Chorus, directed by Robert Frederick Freund, with Edna Lee Freund at the piano. For those who desire study and par- ticipation, not as professionals, but as amateur music lovers, private lessons in voice and piano can be arranged at hours convenient for employed peo- ple. Classes in appreciation, sight reading, rudiments of music and har- mony and Dalcroze eurythmics are available also. The teachers in the department are Pearl Waugh, Helen Farrington, Katharine Lee Jones, May Eleanor Smith, Jessie M. Olin, Mrs. Benjemin B. Wallace and Iris Bland Smith. ‘The new practice rooms in the just completed Strong residence offer the chance to practice daily. Choral groups form s very active part of the cepartment and con- tribute to many activities in the ¥. W. C. A, as well as giving many outside programs each year. The Girl Re- serve Glee Club is open to Girl Re- serves of all senior high schools, with tryouts the week of October 12. The Elizabeth Somers Glee Club is made up of young business girls and women who love the experience of serious work in the field of two, three and four part music. Tryouts for this group may be arranged with Miss Burnett in the music office, and there are several vacancies at the present time. The president of this group is Gladys Darke, and it meets on Thursdays, at 7 pm., at the Y. W. C. A, Seventeenth and K streets. The business and professional women’s department offers an inter- esting musical activity on Tuesday evening, at 7:15, in the Y. W. C. A. building. In addition to choral work, & fine series of musical programs is planned for the third Tuesday of each month, as well as recreational hours and informal singing. Bonieta Sweet is president. Assisting Miss Burnett, the music secretary, with choral groups this year will be Helen Mid- dleton of the Girl Reserve staff, Mary G. Worthley, Riethel Grim and Edith L. Gawson.. Mrs. Edwin B. Parker is chairman of the local Music Committee, as well as being national music chairman of the Young Women's Christian Asso- trar and office secretary. All and activities can be arranged for the music office, sixth floor of administration building. Takoma Park Baptist. Home-coming day will be observed tomorrow and invitations have been sent to members and friends. William E. La Rue will have for morning sermon theme, “Can We Enthusiastic?” In the evening will speak on “Shall We Compromise! ‘The Women's Bible Class will Wednesday evening. the current violin repertoire dates|. Dr, Hans Kindler, ’: phony Orchestra, whici opular conductor of the National Sym- will begin its sirth season on Sunday, October 25, when Tito Schipa, noted tenor of the Metropolitan, will be the soloist. Symphony Season Here Is Backed by Campaign Ticket-Selling Groups and Clubs for Organ- ized Support Are Launched by Many Institutions HE National Symphony season, Inquiries may be made at the box office. Members of the National Symphony | Orchestra Association and their friends are, in the meantime, engaged in a spirited campaign to sell season tick- ets. They are organizing ticket-selling groups, as well as concert-attending clubs in the Government departments, in the private schools and in Wash- ington’s colleges and universities, Through the co-operation of the Welfare Association, Mildred Shunk of the Civil Service Commission is or- ganizing the concert-goers in her de- partment. Several of the private schools in and near the Capital have already volunteered their co-operation in ar- rangements to send student parties to the National Symphony concerts. Among them are the Madeira School, the King-Smith Studio School, Ar- lington Hall, Chevy Chase School and the Mount Vernon Seminary. Smn.AR activity is going forward on the several college and uni- versity campuses. Unusual interest is being displayed at George Washington University, which will send members of its combined men’s and women's glee clubs to one of Dr. Kindler’s con- certs as assisting artists. The glee clubs will be presented in an all- Beethoven program in Constitution Hall on December 13, and will support the orchestra in a performance of Beethoven’s “Choral Fantasy.” Harold Bauer, pianist, will also be a guest artist at that concert. The Suburban Commitiee of the Orchestra Association planned the organization of groups at a meet- ing last Tuesday in the home of Mrs. Robert La Fevre, 112 West ‘Thornapple street, Chevy Chase, Md., vice chairman of the Suburban Com- mittee. Another group of orchestra backers met Wednesday in the Arts Club to lay plans for advancing the season ticket drive. Dr. Kindler’s plans for exceptional orchestral features and for the presentation of an outstanding list of soloists are expected to bring the orchestra the largest following in its history. Mos-r of the renowned artists en- gaged to appear with the Na- tional Symphony Orchestra in Wash- ington during this season will also be soloists with other great orchestras in the United States this year, and Vocal Teacher EDMUND SERENO ENDER, Graduate of the Music De- partment of Yale University and formerly music director at South Dakota State College, Carleton College of Minnesota and Goucher College, who will teach vocal at the Wash= ington College of Music this season. ] noon concert October 25, in Constitution Hall. 12 Sunday concerts scheduled, certs, have been in heavy demand since the orchestra opened its box office in the Julius Garfinckel & Co. store 10 days ago. are still available for both series in nearly all locations, Mr. C. C. Cappel, manager of the orchestra, reports. < of Capital. its sixth, opens with a Sunday after- Season tickets for the and also for the eight midweek con- Good seats, however, five of them are scheduled to make | solo appearances with the New York | Philharmonic Orchestra. In a recently announced list of 28 soloists to be heard this season with | the Philharmonic in New York the | names of Myra Hess, pianist; Ethel | Bartlett and Rae Robertson, duo- | planists; Joseph Szigeti, violinist, and | Lottie Lehmann, soprano, have prom- | inent places. All of these artists | will also be heard with the National | Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Hans Kindler, conductor. Another Philharmonic soloist, Jascha | Heifetz, violinist, has been engaged to appear with the National Symphony in one of its seven concerts in Balti- more, Md. Miss Hess and Miss Lehmann, in addition to their appearances with the National Symphony in Washington, are also engaged to be its soloists in Baltimore concerts. To Lecture on Opera. RTURO PAPALARDO is present- ing eight opera lecture recitals at the Washington College of Muslc on successive Tuesday evenings, be- ginning October 20. The repertoire embraces “Tosca,” “Madam Butter- fly” “Thals,” “Faust” “Otello,” “Tristan and Isolde,” “Boris Godu- noff” and “Pagliaccl.” Mr, Papalardo is a graduate of the Conservatory of Music of Milano, Italy; he was for- merly conductor with Hsmmerstein, Aborn, the San Carlo and Manhattan opera companies of New York and director of the opera department of P?nbody Institute. He is at present director of the Washington Schola Cantorum. The characters of the music drama will be depicted by Mr. Papalardo at the piano and by solo- ists and choral ensembles. Program for Music Clubs. first general meeting of the Dis- trict of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs, Eva Whitford Lovette, Ppresident, will be held at 1810 Connec- ticut avenue on ‘Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock. There will be a brief busi- ness agsno.n. following which & pro- gram of piano music will be played by Ben Jones, guest artist. He will in- flude on his program the Bach-Liszt A Minor Prelude and Fugue, the Bufiho;? ‘;Wnldmln Sonata,” the 8 “Pour le Piano,” Del d Bortkiewics “Etude,” bythe st ; “Fantasie Impromptu” and the “Stac- cato Etude,” by Rubenstein. Mr. Jones was the winner of the Edwin Hughes master class scholarship in 1935, his study since having also been done with Mr. Hughes, while previous training had been received from his mother. Lutheran Bangquet. The Lutheran Missionary Union of Washington, D. C., will have a ban- quet at the Y. W. C. A. November 10, at 6:30 pm. A feature of this ban- quet is the address by Dr. W. H. Greever, secretary of the United Luth- eran Church of America. Florence Vincent Yeager Teacher of Voice & Piano 210 Jeftersen St. N.W. Randoiph 3517 Armando Jannuzzi Grand Opera_Dramatic Tenor Voice Specialist Italian Method 8cool of bel canto. 732 11th St N.W. * "ARTof SINGING AL wivy' CHASE SCABIE LTI Orchestra’s Ormandy as Leader Presents Program for Washington. 'UGENE ORMANDY, new leader of the Philadelphia Symphony Or- chestra for the majority of its pro- ‘Washington series, to be presented at Constitution Hall Tuesday night, Oc- tober 27, at 8:45, under the local au- spices of the T. Arthur Smith Concert Bureau. Josef Hofmann, guest artist, will play Chopin’s “Plano Concerto in F Minor” as the feature of this program. The opening number is to be Cailliet’s ar- rangement for orchestra of Bach's “Prelude and Fugue in F Minor” and the symphony for the evening will be Schubert’s “Symphony No. 7, in C Major.” Although Mr. Ormandy is familiar to Washington audiences as former conductor of the Minneapolis Sym- phony Orchestra and more recently as guest conductor for the Philadelphia organization, this will be his first ap- pearance here since he has assumed the baton for the majority of the Philadelphia orchestra’s programs regularly. Mr. Ormandy will conduct here four times this season. Artisis who will be guest soloists on the three other pro- grams are: Mischa Elman, violinist, December 8; Sergei Rachmaninoff, pianist, January 12, and Gregor Piati- gorsky, violoncellist, February 2. Leo- pold Stokowski will conduct the final program April 6. Reservations can be secured at the Smith bureau, 910 G northwest. College of Music Notes. THE thirty-third year of the Wash- _ ington College of Music has opened with the largest enroliment of recent seasons. Regular classes are in session and the series of lectures will be initi- ated by Edwin Hughes of New York | City on Monday, October 19, with a repetition of the course of last year, “Principles of Modern Piano Tech- nique,” which will be given at 8 o'clock, and at 9 o'clock a new course of lec- tures on “Technique in Interpreta- tion” will be presented for the first| I time in Washington. Paul Mendels- | sohn, great-grandson of the famous | composer and a well known European | cellist, was a recent guest of Mr. Hughes | at his home in New York. Due to the association begun when both were stu- dents of Leschetiszky in Vienna, Mr. | Hughes is actively interested in plans to memorialize the artistic achieve- ments of the late Ossip Gabrilowitsch. | Emanuel Zetlin, violinist, and Henry Gregor, pianist, recently returned | from Europe on the Hanza. Mr. Zet- lin's pupil for five years, S. Gorodetsky, | this year received the first prize in| violin playing at the Concour of the | Paris Conservatory. Eve Starck, who has also been with Mr. Zetlin for sev- eral years, played the Tschaikovsky “Concerto” with the Hartford Sym- phony Orchestra, under the baton of Jacques Gordon, last month. Julia Schelling has spent several months in | New Hampshire with her brother, Fe- lix Schelling, noted Shakespearean scholar. She is assembling new lec- ture material of unusual interest, which will be presented in the near future. Fanny Amstutz Roberts, in charge of the normal training classes at the college, is presenting Gertrude Price of the Walden School of Music in New York in two lectures on her experience in fostering “The Creative Faculty in Music,” which will be given at the| regular morning sessions of the class. The repertoire classes at the college, which offer opportunity for informal appearance to students during the en- tire year, are scheduled for Thursday evenings at 8:30, when the advanced pupils play and sing; alternate Friday evenings, when Helen Miller is in charge of a group, and on Friday aft- ernoon from 4 until 5 o'clock the stu- dents of the Preparatory School of the College have their “playing hour.” Music Hours at Library. THE music division of the Public Library announces the following schedule of hours of opening begin- ning Monday, October 12, according to Dr. George F. Bowerman, librarian. On Monday and Tuesday the divi- sion will be open from 1 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday, 1 to 5:30 p.m.; on Friday, 9 am. to 1 p.m, and on Saturday 9 a.m. to 9 pm. 1t is impossible to keep the division open full library hours because of lack of personnel. Books and music may be obtained through call slips at any time the division is not open, but for personal consultation or aid from the chief of the division inquirers should call during the hours as scheduled. Mos’E_F amed of Ballets MUSIC Here “Green Table” Takes Half of Program Of- fered in Performance to Be Presented Tomorrow Night at the National. it won the first prize in Paris in 1932, and which has the timely subject of diplomatic conferences and war, will be the outstanding T}m GREEN TABLE,” that most famous of all modern ballets, since feature of the single performance to be given by the Jooss Euro- pean Ballet at the National Theater tomorrow night at 8:30. Because of its grams during the current season, has| anti-war theme and the marked originality of its treatment, it has been announced his first program for the | generally commented upon as the first- = step forward into a vital yet new fleld beyond the type of dance program de- veloped by Diaghileff. Klm’r JOOSS, the young leader of the group, who is of Danish ex- traction (and whose name is pro- nounced “yooss” with a long “o0” in- stead of “juice”), has built a company of 24 young dancers, who have been as thoroughly trained in the art of acting | as in dancing. They do not sacrifice | any of the technicalities of the dance art, yet add much depth of characteri- | zation to their work, through the dra- matic effectiveness of their interpre- tations. ¥ Four ballets will be presented to- | morrow night. The first, “Ballade,” | with music by John Colman, is a| clever satire on court life in France, in the days when a jealous queen could | solve her problem by handing the un- fortunate court favorite a poisoned | bouquet and get her king back—at least in the eyes of the court. ‘The costumes for this first ballet are the work of Hein Hechroth and | are made of cellophane in exquisite colorings. Single Baton Second on the program is to be the ballet, new to Washington audiences, “Johann Strauss, Tonight!” which is said to be gay and very comic in theme, with the alluring strains of the great Strauss’ beautiful waltzes as musical background. THmD in the program will be “Im- pressions of a Big City,” which caricatures various types to be found in the streets of a great metropoli, and in which a man-about-town of the night clubs wins the innocent heroine from the young workman lover. Music from Alexander Tans- man’s “Symphonie Transatlantique” is used in this ballet. The entire second half of the eve- ning’s program is given over to tr highly dramatic, vivid “Green Table. " the ballet which put Jooss and his company on the map of entertainment successes. William A. Albaugh is presenting the company here, and tickets can be secured at the box office, National® Theater. mouse had been gnawing away at it with unflagging zeal.” The logical question. then, is—why Cherish ed By Ormandy Philadelphia Leader Has Used It for All Programs. hasn't the blond conductor replaced it with a new stick long since? It is well known that he has had sev- eral fine ones presented him on cere- monial occasions. However, the mere suggestion horrifies Eugene Orm: He must have that one stick ev time he mounts a - podium for concert. The fifst time he ever picked up, this little stick was on the historic day in the Capitol Theater York, when, at the last momen a T IS not unusual for orchestra conductors to use three or four batons in a concert program. For Eugene Ormandy, however, who con- ducts the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra in most of its programs, both at home and on tour this season, there is only one baton that he will use—and he hangs onto it tenaciously. | This baton is a simple and very | much worn shaft of light wood, which | shows traces of many years’ service. | The point at the handle where he is | accustomed to hold it is almost com- | pletely worn through and looks, as | Ormandy himself admits, “as if “ Pianist TAMARA DMITRIEFF, Pianist and teacher, who has organized a school for piano and dance in conjunction with Tatiana Gnoocheff, dancer. 6824 LW, PHONE_GEORGIA 3233 Norman FRAUENHEIM Will resume his piano classes on Monday, Oct. 12th Due fo his New York elasses r. Frauenheim can accept only & limited number _of pupils. Auditions now by_calling Ass't Isabel Squibb at MEt. 4764. new concertmeister, he was moned to replace the absent directo: and lead Tschaikowsky's “Fourt. phony.” It was that very baton which won him first marked recognition as a conductor and, therefore, he cher- ished it and has always held it since that day, whether he was conducting radio broadcasts, recording ensembles, or, as at present, the finest symphonic orchestra in the United States. He says that eveptually, when it bresks, he is determined to have it patched up or so incorporated into a new baton that his fingers always will touch its wood. Ormandy wields this baton when he comes here Tuesday, October 27, to lead the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra in the first program of the local season at 8:45 pm., in Constitu- tion Hall. Josef Hofmann will be, the famous soloist of the occasion. Ormandy also will lead the next three programs which the Philadelphia group will present in Washington, and Leopold Stokowski will conduct only the final program in April. Reservations for the orchestra events can be made at T. Arthur Smith's Concert Bureau, 910 G street north ‘west. Ruth Marie Gardner Pupil of late Herbert Witherspoon Director of Metropolitan Opera Ce. VOICE INSTRUCTOR Braduate of Chicago_Musical College Studio. 1325 G St. N.W.. ird Floor. Geo. 54. Studio. Met. 6158 * BASSES AND BARITONES Chorus voices wanted for choir. Interest- ing work, opportunity for educational ad- vantages. Address Box 6-K. Star Office. Mrs. Hamilton-Wolfe |, —pupil of Xaver Scharwenka. Berlin. Ger- many, etc Piano lessons reasonatle (in pupil’s home if desired). Graded courses, beginners or aduit. 3210 17th St. N. PHONE DECATU 1-W. Dorothy Tyler (Pupil of George Fergu: Zerf, Frank Bil on. William ete.) Teacher of Singing announces Beginning her Tenth Year with the Washington College of Music, Inc. 1810 Connecticut Avenue "Phone DEcatur 5862 . Day and evening courses in all subjects under a Wherever your musical interests lie, it will be to your odvantage to consider the opportunity of study carefully chosen faculty, headed by teachers of international reputation For all students o For professional or amateur For everyone who loves music at an INSTITUTION of ESTABLISHED REPUTATION. First—The courses are not inflexible. They are bosed on a long experience of pvepéring students for any field of specialization in music and for the more casual study. Second—They represent the considered opinion of a faculty thoroughly familiar with necessary quali- fications for the musical profession and possessing a standards do not prevent them from appreciating the. efforts of the non-professional. Third—They are designed to give not only sound training in any certain subject, but also the cultural and social background which can be acquired only in a school such as this, where there are numerous teachers, each with a special de partment, and where the necessary subjects can be brought together under stimulating influences. faculty adviser without EDWIN HUGHES of New York City will conduct the first teaching session of his SIXTH season October 19. Reservations accepted mow. Washington College of Music, Inc., obligation. broad social outlook, whose high artistic You may request a conference with the f all ages and Preparatory School 1810 Connecticut Ave. DEcatur 5862

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